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The curious jumble

…it seems to have hindered his capacity for self-expression. “My head was so full of words that I often had trouble forming simple sentences out loud,” he writes, “and my speech became a curious jumble of obscure words and improper syntax.” But Shea seems to have loved this experience of verbal overspill — he underwent [...]

The third roué

It must be coming. Because that’s always the way it works, the odd word showing up again and again and again.
Roué.
First, The Long Embrace, Judith Freeman:
12/11/48 TO CHARLES MORTON, EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY: [from Raymond Chandler]
I am a very happy man. I haven’t a brain in my head, an idea on my mind, or [...]